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Posted: November 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment »It’s a bit hard to believe it’s a first, but after storied appearances in movies a home robot now made it to a theater.
Tuesday marked the theatrical debut for the Wakamaru, which appeared onstage alongside real-life actors in a play that’s being hailed as a first in robot-human artistic collaboration. Hataraku Watashi (“I, Worker”), by playwright Oriza Hirata, focuses on a couple who own two housekeeping robots, one of which loses its motivation to work.
No it’s not a first, for sure. In New York Robots appeared on stage already like musicians performing contemporary musical performance. I know one of the performer but not at all about the performance itself.
it was during:
May 31 , June 1 and June 2 2007
JG Thirlwell’s commission for string quartet and robot instruments
at Three-Legged Dog Art and Technology Center
The string quartet for JG’s piece will consist of Leyna Papach, Elena Park, Karen Waltuch and Okkyung Lee
80 Greenwich Street @ Rector
New York
“Robosonic Eclectic: Live Music by Robots and Humans”. A concert series consisting entirely of works commissioned for LEMUR’s musical robots. Pieces are by J.G. Thirlwell, Morton Subotnick, George Lewis, John Flansburgh and John Linnell (They Might Be Giants) and others. Robosonic Eclectic is presented as part of the New York Electronic Art Festival (NYEAF) http://www.nyeaf.org, a month-long celebration of cutting-edge electronic music performed at various venues from May 12 – June 10, 2007.
but i assume earlier, more similar events happens at IRCAM in Paris, managed by Pierre Boulez among others.